The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-09-15

Doings Throughout the World and
the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest Tele-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.
At the Mitchellstown riot in Ireland two
men were killed and one hundred ard
four injured.
Reports have been received at the de-
partment of state from Chill to the effect
that cholera is spreading rapidly in that
country. =
Bubear and Courtney have signed arti-
cles to row three miles with turn at Os-
wego, September 2Sth, for a purse Of
,00O side.
A large number of officials and mer-
chants have been arrested in Austria for
connection with extensive frauds in the
Vienna custom house.
Ross, the negro murderer of Emily
Brown, white, was hanged at Baltimore,
last Friday afternoon He went to the
gallows singing hymns.
The general executive board of the
Knights of Labor voted last Friday to is
sue charter for national trades assem-
bly, composed of hoemakers.
Jockey West, who was terribly injured
on the race track at Saratoga August %,
died last Friday morning. The dead
jocky was in the employ of E. J. Baldwin
of California.
The English government has assented
to the granting of a subsidy of forty
thousand pounds yearly to the Canadian
Pacific railway for carrying mails to and
from the east.
Work has been resumed on the govern
ment locks at the Cascades of the Colum-
bia river since the volume of water has
| sufficiently decreased to admit effec tua
operations being prosecuted.
The Giasson magistrates have sentenc-
ed Mr.. Hayden, editor of the Westmeath
Examiner, Ireland, to three months i'm
prisonment for obstructing the police
during the recent eyictiOns.
Elijah Hayes and wife, of Warsaw, Ind,
have donated to the Methodist board of
missions, property valued at $3.50, 900.
This comprises their entire possessions,
they reserving but small annuity.
Hy. Porter's extensive tannery and five
adjoining tenement houses in Montreal
were burned to the ground last Saturday
morning. Twenty six families are home
less. The total loss will be 100000.
A large number of German immigrants
passed through Ell Paso, Texas, last week
destined for Central California. The en-
tire passage from Hamburg to San Fran
cisco, it is stated, cost each emigrant but
$24
The following was the visible supply of
grain or September 10th, as compiled by
the produce exchange, of New York:
Wheat, 31,210,000 bushels; corn, 7,106,-
600; oats, 1885,, 900; rye, 281, 900; barley,
$4,000.
The statement of the public debt of
the Dominion of Canada issued by the f.
nance department., shows the total net
debt on August 81 to have been $685.
494 ,461, an increase since June 80 of 49,
467, 1899.
Last week Editor O'Brien being sum-
moned before the government IN local
court at Mitchellstown, Ireland, and fall
ing to appear, was arrested. All the
Irish patriots and their sympathizers are
indignant.
At the passenger agents meeting in
New York last week it was determined to
raise the baggage limit of emigrants from
100 to $50 pounds. The new emigrant
tariff will not 60 into effect until about
October Is.
Late Saturday night the city meat
market at Spokane Falls was entered by
burglars and $2S6 taken from the safe.
One of the proprietors had forgotten to
throw off the combination and the thieves
had no trouble in getting at the cash
box.
Thomas Kelly, Michael Grove and an
other man named Waters were buried
alive last Friday evening at North Yon-
kers. The earth above caved on them.
They lie under 12O feet of earth, and
there is no possible chance of their hav-
escaped instant death.
Governor Washington Bartlett, of Cal
ifornia, died at the home of his cousin
Mrs. DIR. Bucket, in Oakland, at o'clock
last Monday afternoon. The Governor
had been in critical condition for
month, and his death has been expected
L.